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Today, our team at Rancher announced an exciting new feature called Persistent Storage Services. Persistent storage support builds on the work we’ve done with Rancher Convoy, and makes it dramatically easier to run stateful applications in production using Rancher. The Docker volume plugins, introduced in Docker 1.8 and further enhanced in Docker 1.9, enables developers to utilize a variety of persistent storage implementations as standard Docker volumes. Our new Persistent Storage Services capability complements Docker volume plugins by providing a backend implementation of a Docker volume plugin, and is the core storage technology in our recently announced hyper-converged infrastructure stack for Docker.

Meetup Screenshot: Bill Maxwell Demonstrates Sysdig monitoring his Rancher environment Yesterday we hosted an online meetup with the team from Sysdig, in which we discussed best practices for Docker monitoring, and some of the unique challenges around applying monitoring policies to containers. Over the course of the meetup, we introduced Rancher and Sysdig, and demonstrated how we’re using Sysdig here at Rancher to manage our containers. The meetup included a number of presentations, and we’ve included the agenda below along with direct links to that portion of the meetup if you’d like to jump ahead at all.

Container logging is a common challenge for container deployments. Logging with containers is a bit different than traditional logging, because the logs for each container are nested within the container. On September 16th, we hosted an online meetup discussing all aspects of container logging, and demonstrating how to build a scalable logging service for Docker and Rancher that uses Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK), along with Logspout. In the meetup Rancher DevOps lead Bill Maxwell discussed: • Docker Logging Challenges • Options for gathering logs from containers • System and Application logging requirements • Deploying an ELK stack using Docker Compose with Rancher • Scaling and managing a production ELK deployment You can view a recording of the meetup below.

Over the last few months our team at Rancher Labs has been working on building software that would allow users to create and manage persistent Docker volumes. With the release of Docker 1.8, which now officially supports Docker volume drivers, we announced Convoy, an open-source Docker volume driver that can snapshot, backup and restore Docker volumes anywhere. Convoy is designed to be a standalone Docker volume driver that runs on individual Linux hosts.

Hi, I am Sheng Yang (@yasker), an engineer here at Rancher Labs. Over the last few months our team has been working on building Docker storage software that would allow users to create and manage persistent Docker volumes. With last week’s release of Docker 1.8, which now officially supports Docker volume drivers, I am excited to announce Convoy, an open-source Docker volume driver that can snapshot, backup and restore Docker volumes anywhere.

Running Drone as a Rancher Service for Dockerizing Builds On August 13th, Darren Shepherd and Shannon Williams hosted an online meetup demonstrating how our team at Rancher uses Drone.io, Docker and Rancher to build a scalable CI platform for builds and test environments. Rancher engineer Bill Maxwell gave a demonstration of how he built Rancher’s CI platform, and provided a Docker Compose file for anyone interested in deploying it themselves.

During the meetup Darren Shepherd demonstrated how to deploy a complete container stack On July 15th, Darren Shepherd and Shannon Williams hosted an online meetup demonstrating how to deploy a pilot Docker Service, and teaching attendees how to implement an integrated stack that included DockerHub, GitHub, Rancher, Jenkins and Prometheus. We’ve recorded the meeting and shared it below. You can register for our next online meetup on our events page.

Hi, I’m Craig Jellick, an engineer here at Rancher Labs, and I wanted to walk you through a new set of features that we recently added to Rancher as we prepared for beta. Internally, we call it our \“Native Docker Management\” functionality, and it is incredibly core to our mission here at Rancher. When we built Rancher, we explicitly didn’t want to wrap Docker’s APIs with a new management layer. A number of existing tools already take that approach, and while it is an effective way of building a controlled system, we really loved the experience using the Docker CLI and API, and were sure that it would just keep getting better over time.

On June 16th, Darren Shepherd and Shannon Williams hosted an online meetup demonstrating the Beta release of Rancher, and teaching attendees how to deploy Docker applications using Rancher. We’ve recorded the meeting and shared it below. If you would like to learn more about Rancher, please sign up for our Beta Program, or schedule a discussion with one of our engineers.